Director - Design Project Management (Urban Core) (REQ738)
Summary
The Design Project Management Director leads the end-to-end design and delivery of large-scale mixed-use urban developments. This client-side role involves coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing stakeholders, and ensuring design excellence across architectural and public realm projects.
The Design Project Management Director will lead the planning, management, coordination, and delivery of design across a portfolio of mixed-use precinct developments within the Urban Core business. The role will oversee the end-to-end design management process for public realm, public spaces, retail, food & beverage, commercial office, and destination-led mixed-use assets.
Working on the client side, the successful candidate will act as the key interface between development, asset management, project delivery, design consultants, authorities, operators, and stakeholders to ensure the design vision is successfully translated into high-quality, commercially viable, and operationally effective built environments.
This role requires a strategic leader capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, driving design excellence, maintaining programme commitments, and ensuring seamless integration across architectural, landscape, infrastructure, public realm, placemaking, and commercial development disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Leadership
- Project & Programme Management
- Mixed-Use Development Integration
- Stakeholder Management
- Commercial & Development Support
- Quality & Compliance
- Team Leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Professional accreditation preferred (RIBA, AIA, AICP, ASLA, PMP, MRICS, CEng or equivalent).
Experience
- 15+ years of relevant experience in design management & project management
- Minimum 7 years in a leadership role managing large-scale mixed-use developments.
- Proven client-side experience on complex mixed-use, urban regeneration, masterplan, or destination development projects.
- Strong experience overseeing public realm and placemaking-focused developments.
- Demonstrated success managing international multidisciplinary consultant teams.
- Experience delivering projects throughout the full development lifecycle from concept design through construction and handover.
- Middle East experience strongly preferred.
- Experience within large-scale masterplanned communities, giga-projects, mixed-use districts, or city-scale developments highly desirable.
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